Richard Wilbur, Remembered

Richard Wilbur died last weekend, at the age of 96.  This last spring marked the publication of his authorized biography, and my review was just about to go to press when the news of Wilbur's passing reached me.  The Weekly Standard now publishes my account of Wilbur and his work and, I hope, explains why we have been fortunate to bear witness to the career of one of America's few categorical achievements in poetry.  Click the portrait to read, "Richard Wilbur, Remembered: The Life and Work of a Great American Poet."

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